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Or:

- Call-in guards could be vanilla with no weapon upgrade (just rifles)
- upgrade to 2x PTRS = 0 ammo
- upgrade to 2x DP = 100 ammo

This or the OP's idea. Both sound good to me.

Official reply by pqumsieh regarding pioneers on the official forums.

Can you link to that post please?

By way of context, I just watched the OP streaming. His Soviet efforts amounted to throwing satchels at random clusters of infantry, when that failed he surrendered.

I guess we all need to L2P...

in plain and simple pig English for all you relic sympathizers, and naziboo fanboys

GAME = NEW PATCH = COVER ORIENTATED

CONSCRIPTS = 6 MAN

GRENS = 4 MAN

LARGE SQUAD TAKING COVER = HARD TIME

SMALLER SQUAD TAKING COVER = EASY TIME

CONSCRIPTS = LARGE SQUAD

GRENS = SMALLER SQUAD

CONSCRIPTS = 6 MAN SQUAD
CONSCRIPTS = RARE 100% MODELS IN COVER
CONSCRIPTS = MORE LIKE 25% = 45% MODELS IN COVER
CONSCRIPTS = MOST OF SQUAD IN THE OPEN = GRENS SHOOT = GET DEADED

GRENS = 4 MAN SQUAD
GRENS = VERY EASY SUPER FUN HAPPY 100% MODEL COVER TIME.
GRENS = 99% ALL GRENS = COVER.
GRENS = IN COVER - SHOOT AT BAD COVER CONSCRIPTS
GRENS = WIN

Absolutely.

Here's a translation of the OP:

(1) Vs Pios
Yeah, Pio are scary, so Chunk Norris Pio that can eat Guards alive, Thank you. We know that.
Excuse me, what do you do against Assgren and PG before? Stay in green cover, don't move. If Pio charge, they die. If you charge Pio in cover, you die. Plain easy. Charge brainlessly into Pio like before? You pay the price.

Stay in green cover (if it's available) to avoid your combat units getting raped by German basic builder unit. Incidentally, if you had actually tried it you'd find out very quickly that it doesn't work: keeping a combat engineer in green cover vs. onrushing pioneer squad results in win for pio most of the time. So better advice is "when you see pioneers, RETREAT". This will be a recurring topic throughout this discussion.

(2) Vs Grens
Since day 1 of COH2, you need 2 Cons to win a fight with 1 Gren, it is the same post-patched. Just make sure you don't get out of cover and lolotov like before. You are fine.

Use 2 units for every 1 German unit. I am not a great strategist but is it possible this might result in loss of map control? Also, if you always needed 2 cons to fight 1 Gren, how was pre-patch game "Soviet easy mode"?

(3) Vs Assgren
Same method, keep your men together (but not blob). Stay in cover, stay in distance, flank them so at least his cover not protecting from two squad. You force retreat assgren. Stall and avoid them until you have enough men to engage them.

Use 2 units for every 1 German unit. Stay in cover and far away from a unit that has sprint. How did "stay in cover and stay away" work for Germans before patch against PPSh cons by the way?

If you see 1 Gren vs. your 1 Con, the best strategy is... RETREAT!

(4) Vs PG
More squishy than before. LOL, F-O-C-U-S-F-I-R-E

PGs had their armor reduced. All Soviet units had their armour buffed to help you defeat PGs... err, wait? Also, focus fire... unless you are talking about a special new "focus fire" ability, you probably mean having to "use 2 units for every 1 German unit"... or RETREAT!

(5) Vs 222
Mines, covers, or just blob.

Your first job as the Soviet player who is losing map control due to the superiority of German infantry is to sneak your combat engineers behind the rapidly advancing German front line and plant mines to help you deal with the scout cars.

Second job is "stay in cover" because a conscript squad in cover will win a shootout with an armored car.

Third job is blob and hope the German player takes pity on you and doesn't support his car(s) with infantry.

or, you guessed it, RETREAT!

(6) Flamer 251
RIP 25 Mar 2014

The flamer is dead! Long live the MG halftrack with no real counters (previous counter was T70 which now costs 195 fuel to build). Just bring up your howitzer-range scout car and MG HT to just behind your front line and reinforce your god-like infantry while Soviet player cries himself to sleep.

Summary of advice for Soviet player:

Use 2 units for every 1 German unit

AND/OR

RETREAT FOR MOTHER RUSSIA!